Principal Security Data Platform Engineer

Job Description

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

The Role

As a Principal Security Data Platform Engineer at SAP, you will play a crucial role in the development, maintenance, configuration, and troubleshooting of our Data Platform tools within the SAP global logging and monitoring ecosystem. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure on which our global Detection Platform operates, collaborating with key stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure successful implementation. You will act as a point of escalation during outages and as a mentor to Operations staff. Your contributions will support data hygiene and quality and align with the data strategy of the Data Platform. Primary responsibilities include constructing new capabilities, enhancing existing mechanisms, and thoroughly documenting systems for future colleagues.

About Us

The Data Platform Engineering Design Team at SAP builds the Splunk (SaaS and on-premise) platform, utilized by partner organizations for Incident Response, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and Attack Surface Reduction (Vulnerability Management) across SAP lines-of-business. Security tools across the company send their telemetry to our platform for correlation, analysis, and threat detection. Our platform serves as an investigative tool for numerous Incident Responders within our centralized security function (Cyber Defense & Design) and SAP lines-of-business, providing a deeper understanding of their operating environments. Additionally, the platform supports IT Operations workloads for proactive monitoring and compliance.

What You Bring

• Proficiency with data tools such as Splunk, Cribl, and ELK, and familiarity with standard data formats or protocols like JSON, CSV, and syslog. Experience with regex/transforms/grok rules is a plus.
• Strong understanding of major protocols (HTTP, TCP, UDP, etc.), and ability to explain and differentiate them (e.g., TCP vs UDP, HTTP request/response).
• Linux administration skills, including familiarity with bash and GNU CLI tools (grep, tail, sed, etc.) and subsystems like systemd. Ability to explain Linux concepts, such as filesystems, kernel tuning, /proc, boot process, etc. Knowledge of eBPF and modern Linux concepts is a bonus.
• Comfort with GitHub VCS fundamentals and CI/CD integrations (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Experience with container and job systems like K8s, Nomad, ECS, and understanding of container primitives on Linux.
• Familiarity with enterprise authentication and authorization systems and protocols (SAML/LDAP/OIDC or similar).
• Strong network design and troubleshooting skills, including DNS.
• Knowledge of large-scale configuration management using tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Satellite, with experience managing via APIs.
• Experience with AWS management, particularly EC2, Route53, Lambda, VPC, and S3.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of high-performance ETL/Data pipeline implementation and performance implications of various tools or protocols (Kafka, AMQP, Redis, Spark, MapReduce, etc.).
• Experience developing full-stack web applications using modern technologies (React, HTMX, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools for cloud-based workloads, such as Grafana or Prometheus.
• Experience building production systems on AWS, including managing EC2, SSM, AMI builders like Packer, and OS authentication/authorization.

Join our team to help shape SAP's data platform and play a key role in safeguarding our global ecosyste

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​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 426616 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.